Richard Ford

News about Richard Ford, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Nov. 16, 2014

Jonathan Miles reviews book Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford. MORE

Nov. 3, 2014

Michiko Kakutani reviews book Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford. MORE

Jun. 24, 2012

By the Book interview with Richard Ford, author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter; Ford says he’s not a tough cry under any circumstances, but that his own book Canada made him cry the last time he read it. MORE

Highlights From the Archives

Richard Ford’s hero Frank Bascombe has become possibly the best known real estate salesman in American letters, rivaled only by Sinclair Lewis’s George Babbitt. In Mr. Ford’s new novel, Frank has moved his base of operations to the Jersey shore.